DAY 69 Collapsed islands
Wait a minute...... Something flashed through my mind: I do remember that there was another one there!!
I hurriedly waved my hand to "Mom and Dad": "Follow me, there is still a road here!" As he spoke, he took the lead in crawling back to the path he had just slid down.
Finally getting back to the rock wall, I found a small hole next to the stone wall - according to my uncle, it was a slide that led to the bottom of the island. It's dangerous to do that, but it's too late to think about it that much, so I'll have to fight here! After a brief explanation to Mom and Dad, I first slid down the small hole in a demonstrative way.
The cave is less "straight" because of the slope of the island, and it seems slightly steep, just so that we can control the speed at which we slide. Soon, I saw a bright light coming from the soles of my feet, and it seemed that I was about to reach the bottom of the island, so I quickly spread my feet apart, and used to increase the friction on both sides of the road to reduce the speed of the slide.
Because one of the walkways has been broken, the speed at which the island slopes has also increased significantly. The moment I reached the bottom, the island was already tilted at an angle of almost 90 degrees. I made it to the hole at the bottom.
The thick iron chain on the top of the island made a piercing "creaking" sound at this moment, as if it had been stretched to the limit and was about to break.
I hurriedly fumbled around the edge of the hole - it stands to reason that I should have found something that would definitely be here.
Sure enough, at the bottom of the cave I touched something like a rope - I was a little suspicious when my uncle said that this side would lead to the bottom of the island, because if that was the case, my uncle would have known if someone had accidentally fallen down before. But when I came, I didn't see anyone falling to their deaths, isn't that a contradiction?
Even if someone falls through this hole after I enter the secret passage, I should be able to see the dead bodies and the stark blood stains below when I walk up the two aerial walkways, right? But there was nothing, and I didn't think that my uncle would lie to me at the cost of revealing his location, so the most likely conjecture was that there was actually a special escape method at the bottom of the pit.
It is estimated that this is a mechanism specially designed by the ancestors in order to make a "fake death" effect to evade pursuit, or to snipe all pursuers. After all, this rope is indeed difficult to find, and if it were unknowing, it would be impossible for someone to accurately grasp this rope and be rescued at the moment when it fell into such a vertical hole without the current inclination of the island.
While glad that I had guessed correctly, I pulled the rope hard to the side, pulled out a small piece and tied it around my waist, closed my eyes and jumped down.
Again, as expected, while still in mid-air, I was caught in the rope that was pulled out, and I jumped up a few times in a rhythmic way - the rope was elastic - which made me feel a bit like bungee jumping.
I hurriedly kept my head in that position, and shouted to "Mom and Dad" who continued to slide down the hole from the hole: "Put on the medical gloves in your bag and slide down this rope!" "I remember that before I came, my uncle saw that they didn't bring a medical kit, so he stuffed some medical items into their bags, including a few pairs of medical plastic gloves.
After that, he hurriedly took out the simple portable medical bag in his pocket, removed a new pair of medical plastic gloves from it, put it on, and then carefully untied the slipknot on his waist and quickly slid down the rope.
With the protection of medical plastic gloves, the process of gliding is smooth. As soon as I reached the bottom, I got out of the way, made way for Mom and Dad, and stood anxiously waiting for them to slide down.
Fortunately, the process of their slipping down was also very smooth. It wasn't until the last "Daddy" made it to the ground that I was completely relieved - interestingly, as soon as "Daddy" let go, the dark brown rope naturally bounced back to the bottom of the island with elasticity, blending in with the dirt at the bottom.
The colors of these two objects are extremely close to each other, and at such a distance, they are simply indistinguishable with the naked eye.
"Run!! The island is falling!! I yelled at Mom and Dad, pulling the two of them as fast as they could, toward the entrance where they had first come.
But before we could reach the entrance, a huge air stream mixed with various sizes of dirt and rock fragments swept towards us.
Almost immediately, we were knocked to the ground, and our bodies were smashed all over all kinds of hard lumpy objects, and the slightest movement of our fingertips was a pain in our hearts. With this wave of dust and debris, a huge amount of sand and dust was scattered around him, and the visibility faded to almost zero.
To prevent my eyes from being squinted, I immediately reflexively closed my eyes. Unfortunately, the hand holding "Mom and Dad" was washed away in the air current, and before I could touch the side to confirm the location of Mom and Dad, another large wave of smashed dirt instantly rolled and swept me inside.
After a long time, I faintly heard someone calling me, and I finally tried to bring my consciousness back to its senses. I found myself buried in the dirt of the island where I fell, and now only my head had been dug out and my body was still buried.
And the person who dug me out seems to be the younger brother who is holding me and howling at the moment.
I immediately grabbed my brother's arms eagerly, and shouted out the first words after I regained consciousness in a hoarse voice: "Where's 'Mom and Dad?!' They were right next to me at the time!! It should be buried too!! ”
"They must have fled. When I first came over, I saw two large humanoid pits that had been dug not far from here, so they must have successfully saved themselves and then left quickly, right? When my brother saw that I was okay, he smiled gratefully and gratifyingly—I saw that he was about to collapse from fright.
"Looks like they don't need us anymore with that film...... But fortunately, it seems that nothing happened to them, which can be regarded as a great luck in misfortune. I let go of my brother's grip on my brother with a sigh of relief, and smiled bitterly.
I knew that this would happen, and even if I would be suspected by "Mom and Dad", I shouldn't have handed over the film in my hand. Now "Mom and Dad" have no need for us, what if two people run away without permission, and we can't find it anymore......
But fortunately, I felt inside the cuff, and because the clothes were worn enough and thick, the needle hidden in the cuff didn't seem to have any major problems, and it was still in my cuff, and it was not crushed by the shockwave just now.
Maybe this needle can help me attract my parents again. It's a big deal, they didn't have time to take the dragon boat flower in my arms, it should be more or less attractive to them, right?